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  • I can't have a sleep timer cause i need it to stay on for when i periodically wake up through the night. It's so I don't focus on my tinnitus and can no longer sleep.

  • Not another D&D podcast is what i always recommend if people want a dnd podcast. I stopped listening to it though since I listen to podcasts whilst sleeping now and ill easily lose track of what I have actively listened to and whatnot. Will eventually get back on it at some point though.

  • Lateral - guests try to solve weird puzzles that require lateral thinking

    Regular Features - regulars take turns telling a funny story each. They can be all kinds of different things. Songs, plays where everyone needs to get involved, or even true stories backed up with covert voice recordings.

    That's Absurd Please Elaborate - regulars either explain something weird and interesting or listeners will prompt then with a question that they will go and research and explain in the podcast.

    Horne Section Podcast - Little Alex Horne (of Taskmaster fame) interviews a guest alongside his band that will keep playing improv music of all kinds of different genres throughout. Regularly playing songs that end up being relevant to the guest, for example could be a funny retelling of their life or some fun word play on their name etc. the banter between Alex and band makes this one. They probably didn't even need guests to be honest.

    A Problem Squared - 2 regulars each try to solve a question posed by listeners. Is often very intellectual but the two hosts are very witty and can find an interesting and funny way to explain someone's complicated concepts that anyone could understand and learn from.

    James Acasters Perfect Sounds - each episode James shares an album specifically from the year 2016 to try and convince a guest that 2016 was the best year in music in an attempt to justify his obsession of trying to physically collect every album released in 2016. The reasons for it being 2016 specifically are very personal to him and uses each album to explain why. (This is like a companion piece/extension to a book he wrote prior on the same subject, except this time with other people involved and their opinions as well as the audible medium allowing him to share snippets of the sins they are talking about).

    Some other ones I regularly listen to:

    Cox n Crendor

    Geekenders

    Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast

    C.R.E.A.M. (Cars Rule Everything Around Me - The TDC Podcast)

    SmartLess

    Windbreaker

    Better Offline (A good one for Tech Sceptics that hate the big tech monopolies)

  • DreamWorks was more of a case they wanted in on games, made medal of honor. Then it either didn't do as good as they wanted it to or they had a bad experience with publishing it, so they just sold the studio and it's rights to EA.

  • Debatable, you could laugh at truss for how cringe she was at least.

  • Bit of a sidenote.

    Are the English numbers 11-20 influencer by the base 20 system of french back when we had French speaking royalty? And for some reason they're the only unique "digits" for lack of a better term that survived because once we get to twenty it's a pure base 10 system with a consistent pattern throughout.

    I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than me can tell me if my thinking is correct or not.

    Edit: thanks for the history lessons, were interesting to read through.

  • Isn't what trump is doing worse than Liz Truss though? Especially considering he's doing more than just economical collapse.

  • Considers!? Cut the billionaires not the poor!

  • There's a lot of cars that check via camera too to double check, for missing/outdated information and for temporary speed limit signs.

  • Bang the donkey 6? Didn't know they continued after 3

  • NeoNaziLiberals

    Jump
  • I'm pretty sure that they mean neo nazi + neoliberal. A neoliberal being hyper capitalist and want deregulation across all markets and industries.

  • Yeah you don't need a top of the line pc anymore. If people want to build a new pc either go a few generations old for your components or go second hand for some parts.

  • I find the pc version awkward to play, but the mobile one is great with a controller, feels like a souped up og Xbox version.

  • I can't stand it

  • This is why you have style guides, policies and safeguards, with others checking PRs as they go through to catch this sort of stuff.

    Plus I'm not saying everything should be commented. By default things should be explainable through the code and making sure variable and method names are descriptive, along with strong typing if your language has it.

    Comments are there for when the code itself is not enough. But you're right shit always creeps in eventually regardless of the best intentions. Which is why teams need tech debt breaks where no new features are added and they go through the code fixing the niggly things that haven't been worth fixing whilst doing other features, and ensuring critical sections (the kind that usually have comments on them) are still working as intended and described accurately.

    This is from a senior dev in the industry.

  • If you're ever the one updating code with comments and not ensuring they match to the new updates, you are the problem, the comments are not.

  • comment anything that needs extra info to explain what and why (if the code is not inherently self explainable)

  • I first thought this meant it was a "sports keyboard" that was handheld and was very confused on what that meant.

  • Nah, I used QWERTY till I was like 28 then learned Colemak-dh on an ergo split keyboard, only took a month to get to normal and now I can type with both. It's like becoming multilingual but WAAAAAAY easier.